Word: relentless
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...standards, this was pretty shoddy equipment, but not even the G.I.s fresh from home were deceived; they were well aware that the Korean Communists had already proved themselves a skillful, relentless and resourceful foe. Said a high-ranking U.S. military commander last week: "Everybody tends to overestimate an enemy who puts up a fight, but make no mistake about it-these guys are tough; they are just as tough as the Japanese." The officer supplied some specifics. "The Korean Communists," he said, "can start marching at daybreak, march all day and all night, and then attack in the morning...
...Japan. The Strategic Air Command (known to the Air Force as SAC) was a $310 million-a-year business, a top-priority task force with 1,100 planes, some 60,000 pilots, crewmen and groundmen. For 22 rugged months Curt LeMay had been holding them all to a relentless, competitive training schedule. With an impersonal assortment of charts and graphs -his "numbers racket," he called them -he kept a sharp, hazel-eyed watch on everything from bombing accuracy (up 500%) to venereal-disease rates...
...crisis came after the crash of '29, when insurance companies were hit along with everyone else. Smith, who had moved up from a vice-presidency into the presidency just after the crash, kept paying full dividends for three years. By thus building up good will, and by relentless plugging of the firm's soundness with an ad he thought up during a Sunday church service ("Seven major depressions have failed to shake the stability of this company"), Smith in 21 years had quadrupled New England Mutual's assets (to $1.1 billion) and increased the insurance in force...
Boxing fans remember Joe Louis as a relentless stalker with dynamite in his punch, who held the World Heavyweight Boxing Championship for eleven years, defended it successfully 25 times. Two years ago, at 34, Joe made his final title defense against cautious Jersey Joe Walcott. He won by a knockout in eleven sluggish rounds while ringsiders shook their heads. Joe was slow and flabby; his bald spot was showing. Joe hung up his gloves...
...Roman Catholic Church was not the only victim. The Reds have also brought relentless pressure on Hungary's Lutheran Church (500,000 members). Staunchly anti-Communist Lutheran Bishop Lajos Ordass, recently freed after serving almost two years in prison, was stripped of his clerical rank by a special church court. Last week, Hungary's Lutheran Church took another step toward surrender to the Red state by choosing an avowed supporter of the Communist regime to succeed Ordass. He was Laszlo Dezsery, 36, who had made his stand amply clear when two years ago he denounced his fellow pastors...